UP government schools to teach road safety and security to students

Under this initiative, schools will display traffic rules and slogans on the walls of their premises to draw students' attention toward road safety.

Uttar Pradesh government primary and upper primary schools have been instructed to teach road safety rules to over 1.91 crore students studying in 1.31 lakh government schools across the state. The road safety and security rules will be taught during the morning assembly. The basic education department has issued instructions to principals of these schools to hold a meeting for awareness of parents too in this regard.

Instructions in this regard have been sent to all district-level officers to inform principals. The letter says the transport department has expressed concern over the increasing number of people killed in road accidents. The Department is seeking the cooperation of the basic education department to help reduce the number by spreading awareness of adhering to road safety rules.

Teach road safety and security to students under the State Transport Department initiative

The instructions have been released under the initiative of the state Transport Department. Ganesh Kumar, joint director, basic education, informed that the schools have been approached by the Department to spread awareness among children. "Students will be told to not use mobile phones while crossing roads, to educate parents to not drive vehicles in high speed and use seat belts while driving," Kumar said.

These schools will display traffic rules and slogans on walls of their premises to draw students' attention towards road safety.

"A school transport safety committee will be constituted to raise awareness among the students to follow road signs like zebra lines, cross road when signal is red, avoid over speeding, follow road norms, traffic signs, highway codes, traffic hazards and related topics," he explained.

It wants to educate and sensitise students at an early age so that they may also tell their parents and neighbours to follow road safety norms.

According to the Department, every year, a large number of road accidents occur in the state that results in irreparable loss of life and property.

Special emphasis is being laid on road safety by the government to control the number of deaths in these increasing accidents.

Target set to reduce death toll road accidents by 50%

The state government has set a target to reduce the number of road accidents and deaths by 7-10% in the current year as compared to 2021.

A Supreme Court committee on road safety is also reviewing the efforts being made by issuing regular instructions to bring down the death toll in road accidents. The target is to reduce the death toll in road accidents by 50% by 2030.

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